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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Red Light Dandy

Red Light Dandy

For quite a few months I have been trying to take a photo of the store front of an establishment in Seattle's University District. Either I did not have my camera or the photo did not turn out like I wanted. Luckily, the store does not change its windows frequently. I finally got the photo and decided I wanted to do a gum Arabic transfer of the photo into my new journal. The transfer process failed but I had gum Arabic and printer's ink all over the photo. After wiping it many times with a baby wipe I got it to a place that I was pleased.

We love to watch Project Runway on television and the seed was planted to do a fashion piece for my new crown binding journal. I recently was in Minnesota visiting my great art friend, Terry Garrett, ( http://whisperwoodartworks.blogspot.com/ ) and with his generous gift of many ephemera pieces the Red Light Dandy was developed to what you see.